How To Use Existence In A Sentence
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This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
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I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
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These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
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In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
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And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is difficult to see why dialogue negates or denies the existence of authority.
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The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
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For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence.
The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
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I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit.
Les Miserables
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Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game …
Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
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Shortly after the demolition of the tower, the reef, as if enraged at having been denied a number of victims owing to the existence of the warning light, trapt the "Winchelsea" as she was swinging up Channel, and smashed her to atoms, with enormous loss of life.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
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When women give up their souls to the ultimate colonization known as heteronormative existence, they lose their shot at greatness.
Women's Space
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He is concerned with the existence of invisible power within the state, creating a barrier between it and the people.
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The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam came into existence in July 1976 as a communist country modelling its political system after those of the Soviet Union and China.
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Any instrument of knowledge proving the non-existence of consciousness, could do so only by making consciousness its object -- 'this is consciousness'; but consciousness, as being self-established, does not admit of that objectivation which is implied in the word 'this,' and hence its previous non-existence cannot be proved by anything lying outside itself.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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Some people think that it is difficult to prove the existence of the unconscious mind.
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Gods, devas, demi-gods, human, animal… these are all part of the Karmic Cycle of Existence called Samsara.
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Lying in the plastic chair, he wondered about the rigours of human existence, and about the people he had been.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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They form the bedrock of the Association's existence.
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This was the only way a kindred soul could recognise you, saving you from a lonely existence.
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They shared the joy and burden of editing for the next thirteen years, the longest period of any coeditorship in the journal's existence.
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Industry pundits claim the existence of such offers renders pay-as-you-go deals obsolete.
Times, Sunday Times
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The absence of bowel sounds for a full 5 minutes strongly suggests the existence of intestinal atony or ileus, which has many causes.
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Is the ultimate unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?
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Die young, and I shall accept your death- but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all. Napoleon Bonaparte
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They live their daily existence in the shadow of one of the busiest travel destinations in the world.
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party
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Hence without the existence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy, collective struggles diminish greatly in importance in traditional societies.
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They come into existence after relatively brief periods of rapid change in a small sub-population of a pre-existing species.
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In fact, the mark ties with that of the 1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an expansion team that lost the first 26 games of its existence, the longest losing streak in major American professional sports.
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Et vu le volume de production attribuable au capital commun, le dividende à chacun devrait être au moins suffisant pour couvrir les besoins essentiels de l'existence.
Qu'est-ce que le vrai Crédit Social? Au-dessus des partis politiques
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They eke out a precarious existence .
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Now in Lebanon, he and his family are safe but existence is hand to mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would you enjoy being a quintuplet in the early 20th century when, as a reproductive anomaly, the simple fact of your existence made your family a freak show.
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Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The world yet again faces another mind-boggling issue which threatens the existence of human beings on planet earth.
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Only when an influence is exerted, whether immediately or through a third party, from one upon another has society come into existence in place of a mere spatial juxtaposition or temporal contemporaneousness or succession of individuals.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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This abiding relationship extended to all aspects of life, including daily existence.
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All these methods assume that there is no recombination, and they rely on the existence of a single simple coalescent history or genealogy for all sites in the locus.
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People living a hand-to-mouth existence are turning to ' buy-back stores' to get their hands on ready money.
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Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
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-- The scientific remedies for poverty and pauperism, that is, the scientific methods of dealing with the various dependent classes and of preventing their existence, now form the subject-matter of a great independent science, the science of philanthropy, which, as we have already seen, may be considered a branch of applied sociology.
Sociology and Modern Social Problems
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I was unaware of his existence until today.
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The number of individuals is infinite; the generic or specific nature of all being is a unit, or to be apprehended as one only thing; from this one conception we give the genuine measures of all existence, and therefore we affirm that a certain class of beings are rational and discoursive.
Essays and Miscellanies
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_They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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They have enjoyed a somewhat yo-yo existence since.
The Sun
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Those people who need others to confirm their sense of existence fear solitude and find nature's indifference to human beings unendurable.
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The judge pointed out that the absence of previous convictions did not of itself mean that a defendant was innocent anymore than the existence of previous convictions meant that a defendant was guilty.
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When such reflexes persist past this age, it may signal the existence of some kind of neurological problem.
The Developing Child (7th edn.)
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Beware of telling any one of our existence; or we must fly this land.
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The really are the sweetest birds in existence - flightless, defenseless, harmless, big, green budgies.
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It is true that this explanation of the bright, conspicuous colours is only a hypothesis, but its foundations -- unpalatableness, and the liability of other butterflies to be eaten, -- are certain, and its consequences -- the existence of mimetic palatable forms -- conform it in the most convincing manner.
Evolution in Modern Thought
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Yet little has been written about the foundations' existence or the power they wield.
Times, Sunday Times
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To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
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The elephant is the largest land animal in existence.
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And internet users have been quick to point out the difference between his own gilded existence and that of those in the struggling steel town.
The Sun
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As Mr. Connelly observes, the dispensers of population-control grants often enjoyed a kind of pasha existence.
The War Against Fertility
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Does the distribution provide evidence for an interaction zone, and does it reflect the existence of tribal or other political boundaries?
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From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
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We can think simultaneously of opposites (e.g. existence and nonexistence, round and angular), and these opposites must be simultaneously present in our consciousness, for otherwise we could not compare them, nor perceive and declare their oppositeness.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life.
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The existence of an African franc whose value was pegged to the French franc ensured that the former colonies enjoyed a hard and stable currency and that the French government had a say in their economies.
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In the face of "misalignment," the very existence of a "currency imbalance" would be sufficient to open the door to trade sanctions -- whether or not that imbalance resulted from a deliberate attempt to manipulate the market.
Forbes.com: News
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His death had been a kind of summons; out of his self-willed existence into the service of Cesaria Yaos.
GALILEE
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No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.
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She offered Billy a clear route of escape from his drab existence, even if was hard to understand how she could really be interested in him.
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A quantum object ceases to exist here, and simultaneously appears in existence over there.
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And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine.
The Social Disability of the Jew
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The fight hadn't solved any problems, but its continued existence, a familiar sensation from my former life, was a thrill.
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It is certainly not a convincing retort to point out that: the argument is inconsistent with the existence of a Board having powers as specified under Section 11 of the Broadcasting Act. However, in assenting to the Act, Parliament either did not know what it was doing; or was making an idle gesture, not expecting the Board to promulgate any regulations respecting standards of programs, the character of advertising, the amount of time that may be devoted to advertising, and other matters specifically referred to, in the Act; or as I believe to be much more likely, Parliament consciously denied the argument that broadcasting can be left to the normal criteria and judgments of the market place.
A High Standard
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Here we could speak of moral existence internalism and externalism.
Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation
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A large body of evidence points to the existence of an extended, complex coronal magnetosphere originating at the cooler K subgiant
Naturejobs - All Jobs
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No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.
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The existence of antimask laws poses difficult questions of constitutional law.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Writing exercise:
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I came to intellectually accept the existence of this energy and often cited it when chatting with friends, but deep down I wondered whether it really existed and whether it might be simply a primitive word for the circulation of the blood, the tingling of nerves, the flow of lymph, or, more technically, the bioelectric energy of life stimulated by the charge potential that exists across cell membranes.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Do You Feel the Energy of Life?
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[339] Actual grace is an illapse of divine influence and assistance, working in and by the soul any spiritual act or duty whatsoever, without any pre-existence unto that act or continuance after it, “God working in us, both to will and to do.”
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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The team, in existence for just three years, travelled south confident that they would be capable of making the difference between the teams count.
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That is very much part of the social bargain whereby writers are "left alone" to implement their craft, as opposed to being harassed or hounded out of existence; they get their NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and everyone is happy since the power equations in society remain undisturbed.
Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic?
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One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography, with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation.
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a hand-to-mouth existence
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The implication is that these are jobs that would not otherwise have come into existence.
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Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
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I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all.
Vanille Galante by Hermes: Perfume Review
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Determined to forget his past, he is finally able to devote himself to the more elevating aspects of earthly existence.
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One consents to the establishment of a political society and to its authority because of the benefits one will derive from its existence.
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What did she have that could be transferred to him, how could she help him during his final transition from life to a state of non-existence?
The Painter's Wife, a short story
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The constitution declares the existence of the state and it expresses the most important fundamental rules of the political system.
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In the words of Dr. Reid, "He maintains ... that there is no such thing as matter in the universe; that the sun and moon, earth and sea, our own bodies and those of our friends, are nothing but ideas in the minds of those who think of them, and that they have no existence when they are not objects of thought; that all that is in the universe may be reduced to two categories, to wit, _minds_ and _ideas in the mind_.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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Vries, "than that, on the one hand, everything which exists is conceived by or under some attribute or other; that the more reality, therefore, a being or thing has, the more attributes must be assigned to it;" "and conversely," (and this he calls his argumentum palmarium in proof of the existence of God,) "the more attributes I assign to a thing, the more I am forced to conceive it as existing.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
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As one of the oldest fraternities in existence today, it is not surprising that Freemasonry ‘places much importance on history which shapes and determines much of what we do,’ the Lodge Pattaya West Winds Master said.
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And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities.
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
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It has altered the position of the siphuncle, has placed it in the centre instead of leaving it on the back, but it still whirls its spiral logarithmically as did the Ammonites in the earliest ages of the world's existence.
The Life of the Spider
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The fact that it is not an isolated art space, with its desolateness and emptiness despite its real existence, drew my interest," he said.
Hoyt Hilsman: Ancient Istanbul Synagogue Reborn as Arts Center†
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The mere existence of these strange creatures fascinated him.
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He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
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But as he lay and devoured the new 'white breid,' his satisfaction -- the bare delight of his animal existence -- reached a pitch such as even this imagination, stinted with poverty, and frost-bitten with maternal oppression, had never conceived possible.
Robert Falconer
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In fact, practical discourse depends on contingent subject matter for its very existence.
The Politics of Redress - crime, punishment and penal abolition
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He had hoped to meet Simon by now, in the pub or somewhere, but the lad seemed to lead a hermitical existence apart from going out with the girl, whatever her name was.
The Fifth Rapunzel
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Her priority is to maintain an impenetrable veneer of normalcy, of successful, aspirational living while he longs to wake up from the monotony of his existence and start living again.
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The work-worn jeans, red and black plaid shirt, padded gillet and heavy work boots speak of a rugged, outdoor existence, possibly somewhere in the mountainous wilds of Canada.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Once again at the level of the overkingship, as opposed to the smaller kingdoms, there was no continuity of existence and association with a particular family.
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In the late oils and watercolors, he seemed to seek out the inner pulse of existence.
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His history is, he argued, "a biography of things, a filiation of objects, not as pictures of an exhibition, but as records of the process of their coming into existence.
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
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They adapt very well to an itinerant existence for a few weeks, setting up shop in various places, until they exhaust their stock of goods.
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Incredibly, for a short while she had managed to forget the other girl's existence.
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The physical refutation of the self-existence of the universe is completed by the discovery, _that all the orbs of heaven, as well as the earth, are in motion, and that an orderly and regulated motion_. [
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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n. - doctrine denying existence of universe distinct from God. acosmist, acroamatic adj. - esoteric, told only orally. acrocephalic
Xml's Blinklist.com
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Since the end of the 18th century we know of the existence of a curious structure in the region of the sinus, the glomus caroticum or carotid body which, in man, extends over only a few millimetres.
Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
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That would entail the existence of causal relations between such persons, in all their physical complexity, and the divine being.
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Christ came into existence before Abraham did (as Arians affirm is the meaning), but that He never came into being at all, but existed before
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Local police - once again, actors - raid the villa and unearth a stash of illegal porn, blaming its existence on the harangued party boys, who now believe themselves to be facing time in a Spanish lock-up.
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Is the ultimate unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence?
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Of course, retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts.
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Phenomenology involves a radical change in all such positings of real existence.
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We work with the outer form of our physical existence by bringing our complete attention to the physical body, which is the primary basis for our clinging.
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The theory that existence is not a predicate implies, however, that all existential propositions are synthetic.
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In the largest slum, one million people eke out an existence in an area of less than a square mile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Congress, of course, never intended to suspend $ 50 million dams to prolong the dubious existence of obscure fish.
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The new analysis confirmed the existence of 1,098 protein-coding genes on the X chromosome.
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My poor, strange, stoic little poppet, trapped inside her own body, her own shell of an existence.
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But on thinking it over, he decided it seemed less than hopeful to represent a constituency that deserved to be slimmed out of existence.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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When I bend anything for the sake of creativity I try to make sure the bending is part of a grand reality that then carries throughout the whole existence of the work.
The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
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The existence of a rhinolophoid-megabat clade has also been supported by other research teams (e.g.,
We flightless primates
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I submit that part of the reason for that has been the ongoing existence of the veto in the Security Council.
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Doyle hopes to prove his new pet theories on the existence of the supernatural, but when a murder takes place, his own drowned ghost reappears to dog him.
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A further schism developed among those favoring the colony's existence.
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Of course, the Free Family of Olema chose this mode of existence, while even those among Boydston's subjects who engaged in waged work could not avoid this strategy, because the purchasing power of prevailing wages could not replace the unwaged labor power that women and children provided to the household economy. back
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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The last concerns the way the existence of a binding authoritative directive affects the reasoning of the subjects of the authority.
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If anyone's interested in gifting Spooky and me with the distractions that help to make this existence bearable, in the form of Solstice gifts, we have both updated our Amazon wish lists.
"I'm living in an age that calls darkness light..."
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The latter state of mind seemed totally understandable given his isolated existence.
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We should not assume that peaceful coexistence is possible only if all, or nearly all major nations adopt the same social behaviour.
A High Standard
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What we discovered was truly frightening and made us question our own existence in this strange, strange world.
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Since 1838, when it declared itself a sovereign nation, Costa Rica has enjoyed an independent existence, which it has zealously maintained.
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The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, reasonable enough: the only football pitch in existence is simply unavailable.
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced.
Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
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There is practical certainty as to payment, and that contingency does not affect the existence of the liability.
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Such bundles as these are called = closed vascular bundles = to distinguish them from the dicotyledonous type of vascular bundles which are called = open vascular bundles = on account of the existence of the cambium.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Beginning with God's autonomy, self-existence, and authoritative self-revelation, many of the old Reformed theologians were at war with modernity from the start.
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A super-efficient sense of smell is no longer vital to our existence.
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Until that moment the existence of mobile oil platforms had been kept a closely guarded commercial secret.
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He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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Handicrafts have been directed not only to fulfil one's daily requirement but to add beauty and brightness in the otherwise dull and drab existence.
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Our very minds are 'fields of identity in the situational structure of human existence'.
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It doesn't contain anything terribly offensive, though the premiere does mention the existence of sex between alligators and use the word "horny.
Wired Top Stories
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(Neo-Meinongians might also want to say that on their view, ˜3 is prime™ is about the number 3, but in saying this, they would be using ˜about™ in a way that doesn't entail the existence of 3.)
Platonism in Metaphysics
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their nomadic mode of existence
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This is the largest of the wholesale markets, and its existence has revolutionized banking business.
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Il s'agissait du livre américain qui eut le plus de succès à son époque ; en 1837, 15 millions d'exemplaires avaient été vendus et le chiffre atteint environ 60 million en 1890, de sorte que la majorité des élèves et des étudiants consultèrent ce livre pendant le premier siècle d'existence de la nation américaine.
Archive 2010-07-01
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On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies.
HOTHOUSE
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The now defunct Glasgow Club's record haul of 33 wins keeps them alive in name only in the history books ahead of their former rivals - though very much still in existence!
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Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe!
The Disowned — Complete
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Any compromise with this scourge of majoritarian roguery, or any delay in quashing and quelling it out of existence, would only destroy democracy.
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On the level of form, you share mortality and the precariousness of existence.
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This nuns 'choir was in existence by the beginning of the fourteenth century, but may have been built along with the rest of the nave and may have been accessible by stairs near the chapterhouse in the west range of the cloister.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The agnostics and people who refuted the existence of God were considered equally respected as others.
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What can be more important than this for human existence?
Times, Sunday Times
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It affects the quality of your everyday existence.
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Can the India of the Vedas and the Puranas make her mother's dream existence comprehensible to Rakhi, unravelling a lifelong puzzle?
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The non-existence of a national paid maternity leave scheme is a sad indictment on how working women are treated here when compared to other countries around the world.
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Maria, to bring money to her family and escape a stifling existence in her small Colombian town, risks becoming a mule for a drug ring.
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The only motive to devote myself to study Nepenthes viking in habitat is curiosity. Its existence is quite interesting as well as its amazing pitcher shape.
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I kept a whole second existence in a waterproof pouch under the lid of the cistern.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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After documenting his existence and education, it appends only two more entries: a brief chronology of employment, and an impressive list of publications.
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Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association.
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The discovery of a specific taste receptor on the human tongue for glutamates in 2000 legitimized its existence as a basic flavor.
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We deem it another radical defect in Mr. Combe's theory of "natural laws," that he represents the _distinct existence and independent action of these laws_ as "the key to the Divine government," as the one principle which explains all apparent irregularities, and accounts satisfactorily for the casualties and calamities of human life.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
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The feeling of existence (_sentiment d'existence_), which I shall call _inner feeling_, [183] so as to separate from it the idea of a general condition (_généralité_) which it does not possess, since it is not common to all living beings and not even to all animals, is
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
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What a precarious existence we have had as a nation!
Times, Sunday Times
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Both sisters described a nightmarish existence inside the city where fighters controlled many areas, food and medicine were often in short supply, and the thumping concussions of US bombs had become a daily reality.
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I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about it existence.
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Take, again, another set of very remarkable facts, — the existence of what are called rudimentary organs, organs for which we can find no obvious use, in the particular animal economy in which they are found, and yet which are there.
Essays
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But, being unaccustomed to existence as a dragon, by the time the lambent flame burst from his cavernous mouth, Natieasdo had disappeared, taking Lationae with him.
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One of the most important human rights issues of the 21st Century is whether Israel's actions in defense of its citizens, or indeed its very existence, will provide the newest excuse for the oldest of bigotries.
Alan Dershowitz: Yale's Distressing Decision to Shut Down Its "Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism"
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Interestingly, Harbaugh notes that the existence of the manual was mentioned in Willamette Week, when Attorney General John Kroger pointed to it as requiring him to release the drafts of the investigation report in the Sam Adams-Beau Breedlove teen sex case.
Here we go again with copyright and Oregon public records (Jack Bog's Blog)
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This is in distinction from Judaism and Christianity, in which the religious community both pre-dates and post-dates the existence of a Jewish or Christian political state.
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The wooden groining of the tower is curious, and the base of the walls show the existence of a former building that lacked the present aisles.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence.
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The desire for a reprieve from the frenetic, always-on existence that smartphones and the internet has enabled, is palpable.
Tanya Schevitz: Missed Connection: Take a Digital Detox
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A creature once feared a wrathful god. Records of its existence date bake hundreds of years.
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The existence of the lake, to the north of the waterless Kalahari Desert, was already known to Europeans but Livingstone was the first European to see it.
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For the first three years of Cosine's existence the valuations used for determining the withdrawal-share were based upon the replacement cost of movables and improvements, which included buildings.
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How will such persons be affected by other encumbrances on the same estate, either already in existence or arising after the purchaser has taken his interest?
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The other meaning of self occurs in the term selflessness, where it refers to a falsely imagined, overconcretized status of existence called “inherent existence.”
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
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'Ah, Sir!' cried he, 'if you knew how little is to be apprehended from the world, where the whole heart is already absorbed in attachment, contracted in the early dawn of life, and interwoven with the very existence, you would not feel these fears, nor wound me with these doubts.'
The Old Manor House
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The existence of competing bodies claiming to exercise jurisdiction in the town inevitably provoked violent confrontation.
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He was running across a field that bore only the most luminous, starry flowers in existence.
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Enlisting Crumb's help, he writes a series that chronicles his mundane, day-to-day existence.
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A more exotic model posits the existence of small black holes not far from the supermassive one at the galactic center.
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It is this apparent sameness that lies at the root of the sorrow, the inconsolability, of the living, who want the world to bear its sorrows physically, to betray the signs of an existence that will never again be the same.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake
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For, granting the existence of a higher standard, the first question that we must ask about a cultural tradition is, ‘Is it conformable to our standard?’
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The second section analyzes the essential characteristics as well as the necessities of existence of margin transaction.
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Plants evolved parthenocarpy to ensure their continued existence.
The Fruit Hunters
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Now a team of university geophysicists suggests that virtually all of life today owes its existence to an even more radical form of Earth motion.
